The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01
HAVING FUN WITH THE BOYS.
Stirring Incidents of the Early Mining
Days in Nevada.

Days in Nevada.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
He is a man of staid habits and quiet, re-
firing manner much respected aud of great
credit to the city. Nobody will ever believe
that he had ever defended himself from the
six-shooters in a rough mining camp or held
his mine against the agony of desperadoes.
with Henry rifles; but he has We drew
him out the other day and he told adven-
| lures that would make your hair stand on
end and would fill book
Yes, he said, Phoebe was u rough place in
| those days. There was n man there named
| Billy Killing He was pretty bad lot, but
he did not much fear the law. He came
back from an excursion once, and it soon
became known what it was ] was passing
his saloon and lac asked me in TO take drinks
| went. He turned to thin, consumptive,
| limp-looking individual who was support
| ing himself against the bar.
Colonel, let me introduce you to this
| gentleman. He's a friend of mine. He
helped me to rob them - Mormons the
other day
The fellow got into the clutches Of the law
once, and his lawyer made strong fight for
him. 1t was no good. He had to go to
state prison.
Tom" said the lawyer, with tears
in his eyes, tom would have got off all
| right but for one thing. There was only one
little bit Of, trouble against Tom II it hadn't
been for that little bit of weakness in him,
you know.n
Toms little weakness was that he had
killed seventeen men at different times.
But those fellows were plucky 1t is no
use d9pyir9 that, They were plucky. Ray
mond a. Ely had, a property there, aud
one day he found gang had jumped it,
and they held it with rifles 1t was no use
talking about law. Law couldn't have
brought them out in two years and they'd
have cleaned the mine out in that time.
SO he compromised with them.
They We're to have all they
could take out in t'Arty days
and then give up the mine. They kept their
word about giving up the mine, but they
put another gang in before Raymond could
get there. There was a rival crowd, OF
course, and the head of il was a fellow
named Billy Richmond went and inter
viewed Billy. The property was close to
the mine, and day or two after we heard
firing up in that direction. We got out to
see the fun. The gang in possession had
made u barricade of gunny sacks filled
with ore, and were shooting with Henry
, rifles, with the barrels resting on the barri-
cade. Presently Billy came out from be-
hind a tree and made, with lively bounds,
for the barrcade Bang! went the rifles.
Billy kept right on till he came close up.
He had a sx-shooter in each hand. With
one Jump he landed on top of the barricade
and began firing right and left down. Be
fore the men knew what was going on four
of them were laid out and the rest took to
their heels and Raymond had his mine
again.
| once had an experience myself with
Billy that was funny. Billy was powerful
with the boys. We had an election and
they put upa district judge who was com
mitted to public statement that there was
only one ledge in the camp. That would
have settled me, for | believed there were
two, and | had TO beat him. / was putting
up a good dead of money for the campaign,
and night or two before the election
| found out that they had put up a
job to get hold of the money by calling a
quiet meeting to appoint a committee.
went to Billy "Billy," said |, they're try
ing to rob me. Now want you to come to
this meeting. When the proposition is made
I'll make few remarks against it, and then
you get up and make good lively speech to
the boys" So we went, and when the mo
ton was made got up and made quiet
| little argument against it and sat down.
hadn't more than touched my seat when
Billy, with arevolver in each band, jumped
upon the table, and yelled, "Get out of this
YOU -. Get out and he began firing.
The motion was never put, for there wasn't
man in sight when we got outside They
adjourned sine die during Billy's speech.